on 8, 9 and 10 October 2019 in Lyon the International Congress of the GIS (Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifiques) “Religions: Practice, Texts, Powers” took place on the theme of tradition. This was an opportunity for Nicole Belayche (EPHE, PSL/AnHiMA UMR 8210) and Thomas Galoppin (ERC MAP, Toulouse/ERA...

On 24 November 2016, the workshop cycle “Magistria in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim East: ongoing research and case studies” was launched by Ayda Bouanga (LabEx HaStec-CéSor-EHESS) and Jean-Charles Coulon (IRHT-CNRS). Each session will bring together several researchers to present work on a commo...

Billet of the research book ‘The world of djinns’ (djinns.hypotheses.org), programme of the workshop ‘The words, the sorts: the lexicon of magic in Muslim worlds’. Saturday, 8 July 2017 takes place a one-day workshop under the title ‘The words, sorts: the lexicon of magic in Muslim worlds’, organise...

It is at nightfall that the metamorphosis of the Haj Fateh working-class district in Casablanca takes place. The author recounts the succession of events that take place there, in their most lively and positive aspects, sometimes also disconcerting. The characteristics of this neighbourhood urban pl...

Chraïbi Aboubakr. The pencil djinns of Na-īb Ma-fū-. In: The East in the heart: in honour of André Miquel.

Billet of the research book “The world of jinns” (djinns.hypotheses.org), programme of the series of conferences on “Ancient Knowledge in Medieval Islam: Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic” at Leiden University Shi’i Studies Initiative (Lussi) as of 12 November 2020. The Leiden University Shi’i Studi...

This work attempts to describe the copresence of urbanity and rurality in Chefchaouen, Morocco. In this small city of the western Rif Mountains, the expression of rurality is pregnant. Rurality manifests itself through practices and representations of the city and its neighborhoods, in ways of going...

Billet of the research book “The world of jinns” (djinns.hypotheses.org), programme of the colloquium Islamic occultism in theory and practice. From 6 to 8 January 2017, a colloquium takes place in Headley Lecture Theatre at Oxford University “Islamic occultism in theory and practice”. It is organis...

The Coran devotes a lot of development to man’s place in the cosmos, which is part of the ‘world of living’, together with changes, animals and djinns. He described the complex relationship between the anges and Adam, in front of which they had to prosternate, and referred to the adoration of the an...

Friday 14 October 2016 takes place on a study day entitled “Autumn of the book of the pseudo Platon Vache: the natural magy between the East and West in the Middle Ages” at the University of Paris VII Denis Diderot in the Olympmpe de gouge building. Organised by Jean-Patrice Boudet (University of Or...

Among the multitude of traditional materials and techniques used by Yemeni women in crossing rites, I chose to present four of them: the henné, two black inks (khi-âb and -abr), and the tattoo. Hennia and khi-âb mark the transition from the parents’ home to the husband’s authority and marital life....

Billet of the research book ‘The world of jinns’ (djinns.hypotheses.org), programme of the workshop series ‘Islamic occult Studies on the Rise’ from March to December 2021, held a series of workshops organised by Matthew Melvin-Koushki (University of South Carolina) and Noah Gardiner (University of...

On Saturday 8 July 2017, a one-day workshop was held under the title ‘The words, the sorts: the lexicon of magic in Muslim worlds’, organised by Ayda Bouanga (LabEx HaStec-CéSor-EHESS) and Jean-Charles Coulon (IRHT-CNRS) at the National Institute of Eastern Languages and Civilisations (Inalco) in Pa...

Vence to publish in the Cths editions the work of Jean-Charles Coulon (research officer at the Arab section), La Magie en terre d’Islam in the Middle Ages. Islam appeared in a Saudi Arabian population of divinity and djinns, which were used by the guest, poet and heir to influence the destiny of men...

In the clinical practice, as well as in the scientific literature, there is a vast repertory of diagnostic errors, especially when migrant patients express symptomatology related to spirits, djinns and ali "the night's beings" and/or they say (or who are said) possessed, inhabited, or visited by the...

Billet of the research book ‘The world of jinns’ (djinns.hypotheses.org), a programme of the colloquium ‘Man facing disease in Asian societies’ (Asiatic Society, 4 December 2020) Friday 4 December 2020 takes place at the Colloquium ‘Man in Asian societies’ organised by the Asiatic Society.

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Billet of the research book “The world of jinns” (djinns.hypotheses.org), the study day “Remote action in the Middle Ages and Renaissance” (26 March 2021) Friday 26 March 2021 takes place via videoconference on the study day “Remote action in the Middle Ages and Renaissance” organised by Béatrice De...

Billet of the research book “The world of jinns” (djinns.hypotheses.org), workshop cycle programme “Magy in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim East: research in progress and case studies” (2016-2017) On 24 November 2016 the workshop cycle “The magic in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim East: ongoing re...

Billet of the research book “The world of jinns” (djinns.hypotheses.org), programme 2020-2021 of the workshop cycle “The magic in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim East: research in progress and case studies”. On 2 November 2020, the workshop cycle “The magic in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim East:...

Friday 4 December 2020 takes place in the Colloquium “Man facing the disease in Asian societies” organised by the Asiatic Society. Preparation of a remedy in Kitāb al-Diryāq Source: Kitāb al-Diryāq, MS Paris, BnF, Arabe 2964, fol. 10v. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8422960m/f23.item program...

On 7 March 2017, the workshop cycle “Magistria in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim East: ongoing research and case studies” organised by Ayda Bouanga (CéSor-EHESS) and Jean-Charles Coulon (IRHT-CNRS). Each session will bring together several researchers to present work on a common general topic in o...

Billet of the research book ‘The world of jinns’ (djinns.hypotheses.org), programme and argument of the colloquium ‘Magie, Feed, Sorcellerie’. From 13 to 15 March 2019, the colloquium ‘Magy, Feed and Sorcellerie’ organised by Danielle Buschinger at the University of Picardie-Jules Verne in the TRAME...